2013 Seminar Archive

• Soft Matter Seminar: Revealing Nanoscale Materials Properties via Atomic Force Microscopy — From Spider Silk to Graphene
  Tuesday, January 29, 2013 – 11:00am
  Hannes C. Schniepp
• Soft Matter Seminar: Spatial and Temporal Organization of Soft Condensed Matter: Insight from Cryo-TEM
  Tuesday, February 12, 2013 – 1:45pm – 3:15pm
  Dganit Danino
• Soft Matter Seminar: Characterization of Cell Cycle Heterogeneity at the Single Cell Level
  Tuesday, February 26, 2013 – 11:00am
  Nitin Agrawal
• Structure Formation and Deformation Dynamics in Hard-Sphere Colloidal Materials
  Tuesday, March 12, 2013 – 11:00am
  Katharine Jensen
• Quantum magnetism in ongoing ultracold molecule and ion experiments
  Monday, March 25, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Kaden Hazzard
• Soft Matter Seminar: Forward Forces of Motile Cells Measured with an Atomic Force Microscope
  Tuesday, April 9, 2013 – 11:00am
  Thomas Fuhs
• Soft Matter Seminar: Transient Memories in Experiments on Sheared Non-Brownian Suspensions
  Tuesday, April 16, 2013 – 11:00am
  Joseph D. Paulsen
• CMT Theory seminar: Far-from equilibrium dynamics of open Ising spin models
  Wednesday, April 17, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Michael Foss-Feig
• If the brain is critical, what is the phase transition?
  Thursday, May 16, 2013 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm
  Mauro Copelli
• Quantum networks with ions and photons
  Wednesday, May 22, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Susan Clark
• CMT seminar: Mutual enhancement of magnetism and superconductivity in CeCoIn5
  Wednesday, June 19, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Maciej Maska
• CMT Theory seminar: Quantum Simulation of Interacting Spin Models with Many Trapped Ions
  Wednesday, July 10, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Crystal Senko
• Joint Chemistry, Physics, and Soft Matter Seminar: Materials Science and Cosmetic Optical Effects
  Wednesday, July 31, 2013 – 11:00am
  Curtis J. Zimmermann
• CMT Theory Seminar: Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Correlated Electrons and Phonons after Global and Local Excitations
  Wednesday, August 7, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Marco Shiro’
• CMT Theory Seminar: Equilibrium positions, phonon modes and effective spin-spin interactions for ions and defects trapped in a Penning trap
  Wednesday, August 14, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Mike McAnneny
• CMT Theory Seminar: Landau-Zener transitions in double-well optical lattices
  Wednesday, August 21, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Andrij Shvaika
• CMT Theory Seminar: Dynamics of spin-1 bosons in an optical lattice: Spin mixing, quantum-phase-revival spectroscopy, and effective three-body interactions
  Thursday, September 12, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Khan Mahmud
• Soft Matter Seminar: Contractile Biological Networks at the Verge of Mechanical Stability
  Friday, October 4, 2013 – 2:00pm
  Chase Broedersz
• Ultrasensitive THz Detection with Graphene Nanobolometers
  Friday, October 11, 2013 – 2:30pm
  Daniel Prober
• Soft Matter Seminar: DNA Descending a Nanofluidic Staircase
  Friday, October 18, 2013 – 2:00pm
  Elizabeth A. Strychalski
• CMT Seminar: Ultrafast control of trapped atomic ions
  Thursday, October 24, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Brian Neyenhuis